Tony Zonis wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope. Together, they pick through newspaper stories, looking for ...
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Title: Murder Story (1989)
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| Christopher Lee | ... | Willard Hope | |
| Bruce Boa | ... | Corrigan | |
| Alexis Denisof | ... | Tony Zonis | |
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Stacia Burton | ... | Marty |
| Kieron Jecchinis | ... | Eric | |
| Jeff Harding | ... | Larry Deleo | |
| Kate Harper | ... | Miss Swann | |
| Garrick Hagon | ... | Ben Zonis | |
| Marie Stillin | ... | Judy Zonis | |
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Bill Bailey | ... | Billy van Wyck / Kielman |
| William Brand | ... | Toe-Jam (as William Jongeneel) | |
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Pamela Teves | ... | Mrs. Weber |
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Michael Krass | ... | Roach |
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Bonnie Williams | ... | Julie |
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Danny Sherman | ... | Roach's Buddy |
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Tony Zonis wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope. Together, they pick through newspaper stories, looking for the unusual event that will make a good thriller. What they find is murder. A government cover-up... an international scandal... and the bodies are just beginning to fall into place. Now Tony isn't just writing the next best-seller... he's writing his own obituary. Written by Anonymous
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Music by Burt Bacharach
Lyrics by Luther Dixon and Mack David
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The "Willard Hope Technique," whereby someone trying to write cuts newspaper articles out at random and assembles them to create a plot for a novel gets a young fan of Hope into trouble when he tries it for himself. The technique recalls Harry Stephen Keeler's "webwork" which is essentially the same.
Sort of a poorer version of Three Days of the Condor, where someone stumbles across a real plot.